Pinochle - Meet the Kindel Family: Competitive but close-knit, with dreams stretching far beyond the wheat fields of central Kansas and the conservative constraints of the 1950’s. Led by their matriarch, Esther Kindel, the ten Kindel siblings passionately embrace the promise of the era while battling a deadly family secret. Each week they gather for a game of pinochle; each week they ponder who will live to see another birthday. Some will succumb quietly but others will rage against their fate. In the card game they love, the shrewdest bidder wins. In the game of their lives, cancer seems to hold all of the cards.